Cool good to hear.
Ill wait until they have Alice sundews in stock and then make a big order.

Cheers

Sheldon

I also ordered some of that Epiphyte's Delight from CaliforniaCarnivores.com. Can you explain to me how it works please? I know that you spray it on your plants, but that's about all I know. I hope I'll be able to use it on all my plants...

Hi its easy.
Well you can spray it, the thing is this.
You want to avoid getting it on your soil mix AT ALL COSTS, if it goes down with the water the roots may absorb it and that wont be good.
I generally use a Q-tip to apply it, or if I spray I cover my pot around the plant stalk with some form of plastic.

Ok, for this we use half the recommended dosage (for CP's)
Now the directions have two options:

Biweekly or Monthly mix:
"mix a ratio of 1/2 tablespoon to 1 gallon of water, mist plant or dunk plant.
It says for potted plants apply to soil, NOT FOR CP!!!!, no soil mix, thats a BEEEG NONO.
Ok so thats the recommended dose, so we need to halve that.
So for your CP's biweekly/monthly feeding it will be 1/4 tablespoon per gallon of water.

Weekly mix:
For weekly mix use above method but only use 1/4 tablespoon per gallon of water.
Ok so for our beloved CP's we will halve this and it will be 1/8 Tablespoon per gallon of water.
This will be applied every week. (this is what I do)

And thats about it, its not too bad, I find that if I mist my Drosera that they loose their dew for a day or two, so Ive just taken to using a Q-tip with the mix on, and rubbing it on the leaf stalks.
They seem to enjoy it, the VFT's love it.

WARNING!!!
Lance leaf sundews are full of cr...
Dont use ANY form of foliar feed on them, they are 1 of a very few CP's that it will hurt.
You can use it on all your american sundews, your south african sundews, your VFT's, your Nepenthes (dont get in the pitchers), Pitcher plants (once again only on the folige, not in any pitchers)
Butterworts LOVE the stuff, I give them a good soaking as well.

Hope that helps ya out, its really good stuff.
You will get a small tub of it in powder form.
The mix we make is such a small amount per gallon that I think we will need to add this to our last will and testiment,lol

Cheers

Sheldon

PS dont worry about applying too much, what you want is to pretty much give your plants folige a complete sponge bath with the stuff.
Then leave them until the time (1 or 2 weeks depending on mix) is up.

Dont be tempted to overfeed them with this by using it every few days.
You can use this instead of feeding your plants, or in combination with this.

So is the mix applied to the actual traps as well? Like say, the hairs and dew of the Sundews and the inside of the Venus Flytraps. Or do you just put in all over the green part of the leaves, the "non-trapping" part?

You can literally spray/coat any and everything on the VFT and sundews.
like I say, I find it easier to use a q-tip due to me not wanting to get any on the soil surface, so I give the entire VFT and bath on its surface (everywhere but in traps because Id trigger them if I tried)
Some say you can use stuff like MIRACID with pitcher plants, I read conflicting tales on this, I wouldnt try it though, the plant will get plenty of nutrients through its leaves anyhow.

You can soak down the sundew hairs vai a spray, but like I say, I do notice that if I do this, the sundew looses its dew for a few days.
So Ive taken to rubbing the foliar feed down each leaf stalk and on the underside of each leaf.

You will find if you get any on the sphagnum moss that it will start growing like mad.
But beware, because of your humid enviroment in the terrarium, this can very very easily cause algae and fungus growth to go mad.
This is why you want to mabey remove each plant one at a time, use some form of plastic cover to cover the soil area and leave the plant exposed, then you can use a spray bottle and mist it.

Cheers

Sheldon

I'm not too good with measurements, so do you add the mix to an actual gallon of water? Or do you somehow calculate how much to put into a smaller amount of water?

Well Im using a 2 litre coke bottle to store it, so since 2 litres is half a gallon (one gallon is 4 litres) and since my weekly feeding is meant to be 1/4 of a tablesoon for 1 gallon (4 litres) I then halve it for my 2 litre bottle (whic is 1/2 gallon) which works out to 1/8 tablespoon of the powder.

Ofcause if you choose the biweekly/monthly mix then this is 1/4 tablespoon per gallon, halved for a 2 litre bottle (1/2 gallon) works out to 1/4 tablespoon then.

hope that explains it

Cheers

Sheldon

I ended up just putting it into a one gallon thing of distilled water. I applied it on some of my plants, we'll see if it does any good. Hopefully it won't hurt them :/